RE: Second Mirror in India

Hello, I added it to the system, and it should be marked active in about an hour when our automatic script picks the mirror up. regards, Derick On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Divyank Turakhia wrote: > Hi, > > We have finished setting up the PHP Mirror. You can check it out at > http://in2.php.mirror.directi.com > > I have included the required details for the integration process: > > Name: Divyank Turakhia > > Email address: divyank.t@directi.com > > Country: India > > The xx.php.net address you used to set up the mirror site: in2.php.net > > A hostname to be used as CNAME: in2.php.mirror.directi.com > > The name of the hosting company: Directi Web Hosting > > The URL of the hosting company: http://www.directi.com > > * We have installed local searching. > > - Divyank > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu] > > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 3:44 PM > > To: James Cox > > Cc: Divyank Turakhia; 'Derick Rethans'; php-mirrors@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: Second Mirror in India > > > > > > >>It's a good idea but a second link will work better in this case. > > >> > > >>Load balancing through the a cname entry is a DNS based > > solution. Any > > >>DNS based solution would be cached at the ISP end. This > > would mean if > > >>the first IP is down then the ISP would not request for the > > second ip > > >>until 24 hrs (cache time expiry). > > > > > > I agree, a second (in2) address is more advisable. > > > > So then, please provide the details for the in2 mirror. I guess > > everything except the CNAME will be the same ;) > > > > Goba > > > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------